The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1887-12-07
Pith and Point.
A SKIN game-peeline potatoes.

A SKIN game-peellng potatoes.
The school question" Please, may I
g'wout?"
A FARMER at Newcastle, Penn, gave a
lad turnip for stopping his runaway team.
A MAN in Brooklyn died the other day
from cancer on the tongue. 1t was caused
by chewing paper.
A SOLID cut-gass bedstead, richly worked,
was lately made in Birmingham, England,
for a Calcutta millionaire.
A RECENT foggy day in London caused
the consumption of an extra 100000 feet
of gas. The cost was over $4,000.
THE daughter of Prince and Princess
Henry of Battenberg was recently chris
tened with water brought from the river
Jordan.
EDISON says only one-fourth of a ton of
coal is used The rest goes up the chimney.
Edison is wrong. The rest is left at the
coal-yard. -Omdhd Bee.
THE forest fires in Illinois have done much
good as well as great damage. They have
destroyed the myriads of chinch-bugs that
ruined the corn crop last season.
A BURGLAR at Kalamazoo, Mich, was
frightened away by a parrot, whose loud
call, What are you doing there?" set the
midnight visitor to hasty flight.
THERE is preacher in Epson county who
has married III couples and has received in
marriage fees So. One couple paid him So;
ITO paid him nothing. Columbus (Georgid)
Enquirer-Stn.
WAITER Ito countrymen): "Theres black
bass, sir, and striped bass and white fish
and blue fish" Countryman: "I don't
keer nothin' about the color, friend, If the
fish are fresh"
A BALTIMORE bridal couple who received
telegram of congratulation from President
and Mrs. Cleveland learned a few days
after the wedding that they had been made
victims of a trick.
A PHYSICIAN has discovered that the older
man grows the smaller his brain becomes.
This explains why the young men know
everything and the old men know nothing
Somerset (Penn.) Herdld
ROBERT BONNER once paid New York
paper $1,000 for an advertisement, and
traced back to its information 1000 letters.
And yet some men think that they can do
business better without advertising.
The Herald says: Since March Goth
eight octogenarians have died on the road
between Sandwich and Yarmouth" Cape
Cod octogenarians would better take warn
ing and stay at home.-Boston Transcript.
IT is said that a large proportion of the
lard put upon the market in this country is
adulterated with cotton-seed oil, tallow and
other material, costing the dealers from two
to four cents per pound less than the genuine
article
a CLERGYMAN was delivering funeral
Grafton at the grave of a general. A crowd
of officers stood round the speaker, who
wound up as follows: " In short, it may be
said with truth that the deceased general
never had an enemy in his lifev'-ErnsteS
and HeitereS.
DIR. HOLMES, on being asked when the
training of child should begin, replied
" a hundred years before it is born" I'm
born parents should remember this and
commence in time. There would be fewer
al nd rplf gtg in -iuta h,,,
dred years characterization Herdld
A YOUNG lady who had been married
little over a year wrote to her matter-of-
fact old father in this city, saying; 1--WE have
the dearest little cottage in the world, orna-
mented with the most charming creepers
you ever saw" The old man read the let
ter and exclaimed: Twins, by thunder''-
GreenCHle (Teras) Tribune.
A WRITER asks: Does it pay to be good?"
Well, there are large number of clergy
men in this state alone whose salaries are
not over $500 year EACH while John l..
Sullivan, the slugger, often makes a few
thousand dollars in less than an hour
Draw your own inference. 1t may pay bet
ter in the next world, however.-NorrtStor
Herald.
In the National Library at Paris there
is mountaineering map of South
America drawn by the Jesuit missionaries
On Patagonia as delineated in the chart,
luulduSi RudHdCOS anu OSITlt0tS are eN-
hibited, while the Island of Terra del Fuego
is adorned with the figure of an Indian pos
sessing most curious prolongation on the
backbone, explained by the inscription,
CduddH hOmineS hic here are men with
tails.
A LOCAL paper sings the praises of the
climate of New Mexico at this season: "The
air is so clear that mountains one hundred
miles away appear less than dozen miles
distant. No clouds appear above the hOri-
Zon; the winds are still; the sun casts
shapely defined shadows, throwing rich and
mahogany-tinted colors on mountain, mesa
and plain. There is an eXhilaration in the
air, bracing as a tonic and as exhilarating
as champagne"
GRANNY" the famous sea anemone of
the Edinburgh Botanical Gardens, is dead.
1t was found in 1928 by Sir John Dalzell at
st. Abb's Head, Scotland, and was fully
described by him in his two sumptuous
quartos, entitled Rare and Remarkable
Animals of Scotland" Grannys " food
consisted of half a mussel dropped once
every two weeks into the membranous
psophagal tube which did duty for mouth.
Its album in the gardens contains the auto
graphs of more than thousand distin-
guished travellers and scientists.
CITIZEN in search of information reads in
his newspaper: " A terrible accident oc-
Cured near our city last evening. The I'M
fortunate man was discovered by Patrol
man MCFlnnlgan OF station bI ana word
was Immediately sent to DIR. George Wash
ngton Leach, who rendered all possible aid.
The injured man was taken to the establish
ment of Makem & Mendum's and laid on
lounge which came from the mandatory
of Dogwood * Neneer's, and subsequently
carried to the hospital in one of Checkley's
celebrated carriages" Now, that is
mighty interesting, no doubt, but who in
thunder was the man and how badly was
he hurt? Where did the accident take place
and what kind of an accident was it?''-BoS-
ton Transcript
THE false reports about efforts being made
| to resuscitate Spies, the anarchist, leads
medical authority to state that there is only
one case known to science where man jul
dicially hanged has been resuscitated. That
| case occurred in Austria few years ago.
| The criminal hung for fifteen minutes, and
when cut down was turned over to the
! physicians for experiment. Within five
| minutes from the time he was cut down, or
within twenty minutes from the time the
drop fell, the body was on the operating
table and powerful galvanic current APP
| Piled The neck was not broken, and after
a great deal of labor in producing artificial
respiration and electricity being constantly
applied the subject revived but in state
of wild delrum. From this he never re-
covered, and in twenty -four hours he died.
JOHANN MOST was found guilty by the
jury at New York last week of using incen-